The life and work of Ernesto de Martino : Italian perspectives on apocalypse and rebirth in the modern study of religion / by Flavio A. Geisshuesler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geisshuesler, Flavio A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

De Martino, Ernesto, 1908-1965.

De Martino, Ernesto.

Religion--Study and teaching--Italy--History--20th century.

Religion.

Anthropology of religion--Italy.

Anthropology of religion.

Religion and sociology--Italy.

Religion and sociology.

Religion historians--Italy--Biography.

Religion historians.

Religion--Study and teaching.

History.

Italy.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Edition:

Book edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"In The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino, Flavio A. Geisshuesler offers a comprehensive study of one of Italy's most colorful historians of religions. The book inserts de Martino's dramatic life trajectory within the intellectual climate and the socio-political context of his age in order to offer a fresh perspective on the evolution of the discipline of religious studies during the 20th century. Demonstrating that scholarship on religion was animated by moments of fear of the apocalypse, it brings de Martino's perspective into conversation with Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Clifford Geertz in order to recover an Italian approach that promises to redeem religious studies as a relevant and revitalizing field of research in the contemporary climate of crisis"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Let the earth shake : from crisis-born hero to master of civilizational crisis

The decline of the West (1908-1929) : the rupture of time in modernity and the rise of the prophets of crisis

Civil religion (1929-1335) : the return to something new as modernist alternative to Mircea Eliade's politics of nostalgia

The crisis of the presence (1936-1944) : the antifascist sacralization of politics and the rise of magical thinking during WWII

De-historification (1944-1948) : shamanic magic and the dialectic movement between Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss

Critical ethnocentrism (1949-1959) : the Southern Period and the articulation of a post-colonial anthropology alongside Claude Lévi-Strauss

Loyalty to the cultural homeland (1960-1965) : critical ethnocentrism as an anticipatory defense against relativism and interpretative anthropology

The ethos of transcendence (1965-1977) : decision and the moral imperative as anticipatory response to postmodernism

Conclusion: Let the earth shake (again) or why rebirth must lead to a new crisis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Geisshuesler, Flavio A. Life and work of Ernesto de Martino

ISBN:

9789004457706

9004457704

OCLC:

1245250222